Wheel-tire.



G. B. WAlTE.

WHEEL TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15,1916.

1,275,634. Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

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zen of the United States, and resident of State of N ewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wheels Tires, of which the followings a specification.

transversely-spaced tread members, a ord-y ing a great degree of wear-resisting and traction power, designed to avold'the common skidding action, and to natural resilience thereof.

A further object is to provide means. for supporting the tread members, upon the tire, either as a part ofthe original tlre-consmooth tire, or as a repair portion to any section thereof. i

And the invention also includes certain details of construction hereinafter set forth.

In. describing the invention in detail, ref-- erence is had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and

wherein like characters of reference are used to designate corresponding parts through. out the several views, and in wh1ch Figlme 1 is aside view of a portion of a wheel-tire'embodied in the present inven tion, one of the tread members thereof being shown partially in cross section; Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the tire taken .on the broken line 22,?Fig. 1; Fig. 3,

an enlarged detail perspectiv'e view of oneof'the tread members; Fig. a, a detailiview of the channel retainer for "the tread members; and Fig.' 5 is a detail view of a wear plate therefor. In he drawings numeral 1' designates the. shoe of an ordinary pneumatic tire in well-known manner to the wheei-felly 3. Extending circumferentially around the shoe or tire is a flexible outercover section 4:,

composed of fabric or rubber, or a combinasecured tion of both, connected inordinary manner, as by vulcanization or cementation, to the surface of'the tire.

Upon the cover section are a plurality of transverse tread members 5, which are de,

signed to extend completely around the circumferenoe of the tire and to be perma- "composed of luralit of vertigall New York, in the county of New York and 1 Q p y t .for the verticaland side I a metal channel I retainer "7,

The invention relates to'vwheel-tires, and;

tread j .-bers and upon t e bottom wall 0 preserve the tially puncture-proof tire.

- the widthof the base flan canization' 'The' tr'ea -membe'rs are each Specification oi Letters iatenth PatentedAug. 13, 1918. Application filed July us, 1916.. Seria1-No. i( )b,48' j 'i I I I; nently fiiedth ei o b aaaaaam Be it known that I, GUY B. WAITE, a c1t1- oined together by strips-of rubber in the usual manner; Inclosing each of the tread members on the "bottom and opposite sides,

secured in position by the rivets 8 and by the vulcamzing support thereof, is 4 means" employed for unitin'glthe tread mem 'cover sectiontoget extend under the tread members and be held a er. Extending l" vertlcally through the tread members is a igear-plate. 9, provided with laterally-exba'seiflan'ges 10 arranged to seat f the retainer and to thereby. As thus positioned and supported,

the wear-plates are adapted 'to receive a large part of thew orln'ng' thrust of. the tire and resist the wear thereon.

In uniting the tread members to the cover I section, the jointmaterial is carried sufliciently high between and aroundthe'mem:

i-bers to insure a'fixed connection yvithout materially-reduc1ng the elasticity of the tire,

the members beingspacedapart the required amount for maintaining a' natural resilience and'at the same time securing asubstam,

, be'ittaous. that the cover. section and'thrustmembersthereon may form part'ofthe original tire [As-thus constructed, it

construction or the Same may be applied to rangement of the .parts as mclu the channel retainer, it will be evident that the latter may in somecase's be omitted by carrying the cementing material sufiiciently highbetween the tread members and increasing of the wearplates to resistthe thrust t ereon. What I claim as my invention and desire to secure-by Letters Patent,'is:

1. In a shoe for a pneumatic tire, a. flexible outer cover section connected to the shoe, a'plurality of transverse tread members cemented to vsaid cover section, channel re.- tainers inclosing said ,treadmembers for side "and vertical support, and wear-plates extending vertically'through said tread memfibers and seated upon the bottom wall of said retainers.

2. A tread member a pluiio rality of vertically-disposed fabric strips cemented together, a channel retainer inclosing said tread member for sidevand verticalsupport, and a wear-plate extendin verti-- cally through said tread member an seated upon the bottom wall of said retainer.

3. In combination, afflexible cover section, a plurality of transverse tread members cemented to said coversection, and wearplates extending vertically through said tread members and provided with laterally projecting base flanges extending under said members. I I

4. In combination, a flexible cover section, a plurality of transverse tread members secured tosaid cover section, each of said tread members consisting of a plurality of fabric strips present an wise -traction surface, channel retainers mclosing said tread members for side and ver- 2Q tical support, and wear-plates extending through said tread members and seated upon if the )oottom wall of said retainers.

5. A tread member comprismg a plurality Q of fabric strips disposed to present an 'edge- 25,

wise traction surface, means for laterally securm said strips together, and a wear-plate exten ing through said tread member and provided, with a laterally projecting base flange extending under sald member, J

Signed at New York in the countyof New York and State of New York this 14th day of July n 13.1916. 1

a GUY B. WAITE; 

